A much-needed soaking rain the past day and night. Cold now but still the hummingbird was buzzing around all morning causing the Pulmonaria flowers to flutter in the breeze from…
These species tulips only last a week each spring but what a joy it is to see the light come through their petals.
We may have some badly needed rain today. The light is soft and saturated with the many colors of Spring. It is a good morning. What a pleasure to quietly…
I delight in the differences that often come with a season from year to year. This year the Pulmonaria in the garden is everywhere, though I’ve never planted a single one, and in…
We are fortunate here in Central Vermont to have all sorts of amazing artists and musicians sharing their work. Over the weekend I again heard one of the local concert pianists,…
In the nearly 40 years we’ve lived in Central Vermont—right in town—I’ve transformed the yard from all lawn to no lawn. Much of it is a sort of wild garden—really just…
We visited Montpelier Saturday—in Virginia, the home of James Madison! It’s been too long since the last American history class (1965) and so we had fun brushing up on the…
While I’m happy to be moving toward Spring, even if slowly, I’ll miss seeing the bones of the bare trees that will soon to be covered again in leaves. They…
After my shameless whining yesterday, the sun popped out and the temperature shot up to 65F. I don’t think it was a cause and effect relationship but, WOW, was it…
For a few days we’re cheating the last of a long, hard Vermont winter—it is still cold and snowing there! Sounds like we may need our boots and snow shovels…
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